We’re looking for an experienced Lead Project Controls Scheduler to lead scheduling efforts for large-scale construction and modernization projects across educational facilities. In this pivotal role, you will manage a team of project schedulers, partner with senior management, and ensure project timelines and deliverables align with program goals.
This is more than just managing dates — you’ll play a strategic role in keeping complex, multi-million-dollar projects on track, on budget, and on scope, directly impacting the delivery of high-quality educational facilities for the community.
What You’ll DoLeadership & Oversight
- Supervise and mentor Project Schedulers, ensuring schedules are accurate, realistic, and aligned with program objectives.
- Partner with Owners’ Authorized Representatives (OARs), Senior Project Managers, contractors, and site staff to review CPM schedules, project scopes, and budgets.
- Forecast project staffing needs and make recommendations to executive leadership to optimize team resources.
Scheduling & Analysis
- Develop and maintain program schedules for multiple project types, identifying relationships, logic, milestones, and constraints.
- Review contractor baseline and updated schedules for scope accuracy, proper sequencing, and contract compliance; provide detailed written feedback.
- Perform QA/QC on schedule submittals, reviewing critical paths, cost/resource loading, logic relationships, constraints, and milestones.
- Conduct schedule Time Impact Analyses for change orders and negotiate delay settlements with stakeholders.
- Perform Critical Path and Earned Value analyses to assess schedule performance.
Collaboration & Communication
- Serve as the primary liaison between project scheduling teams, senior management, and the Program & Project Controls department.
- Lead schedule-related discussions in weekly progress meetings and other stakeholder sessions.
- Conduct site visits to validate contractor progress and prepare status reports for upper management.
Reporting & Continuous Improvement
- Maintain program-level coding standards and data integrity.
- Perform regular QA/QC reviews of program schedules and master schedules.
- Prepare schedule performance reports and status updates on a bi-monthly basis.
RequirementsWhat You Bring
Experience & Skills:
- 8+ years of full-time professional experience in construction scheduling for an Owner or General Contractor (public works or educational facility projects preferred).
- Proficiency in Primavera P6 (latest version) and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Strong understanding of cost engineering, scheduling best practices, and schedule forensics.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and organizational skills.
- Proven ability to foster collaboration across diverse project teams.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Construction Management.
- OR Bachelor’s degree in another discipline plus 2 additional years of qualifying construction scheduling experience.
Benefits
We offer a competitive benefits package featuring 100% employer-paid health insurance, a 401(k) with profit sharing, and additional paid time off each December.
Skills Required
- 8+ years of construction scheduling experience
- Proficiency in Primavera P6
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Construction Management
What We Do
PM2CM, Inc. is a professional services company dedicated to providing program, project, and construction management, as well as project controls, scheduling, and cost management services.
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